Elektra is a pretty good character, however I am really tired of all these characters with execution, brutal abilities etc. Stuff that kill people under low life and so on.(Another new character Thane,,,also has this). I mentioned in an earlier article as well, so its getting kinda ridiculous that so many characters now have this, Furthermore, for example Phoenix was nerfed(coming to this later as well) so its really wtf, when are this abilities every gonna be needed. This ignore resurrect etc is almost completely absolute, which also makes Thane's ability a lot better then Elektras.
Well Elektra's assassinate is stealth thats great, well all her move is stealth.
Stealth and internal bleeding is the unique stuff of Elektra. Internal Bleeding is the same as bleeding but it cannot be removed. However, it can actually be overwritten by normal bleeding. Which makes her not coexisting as good with for example Ares as she should.
Elektra is strong, she has a good primary attack as it has hemorrhage and adding more internal bleeding.As this is her counter and follow up attack its easy to constantly bleed and ravage people.. As with Ares. Her second attack has one of the best debuffs in the game Flanked, which makes everyone attack on that target become followed by a primary attack.
This attack also adds bleeding, so does her third attack which is an AoE Internal Bleeder + ravage, which is really good, you should start with this ability to set everyone with ravaged/bleeding to set up a save minimum damage to all enemies.(while gaining Counter reflex if a tactician is in the game)The Hobbled debuff(characters attack are not stealth anymore) is actually kinda pointless. It more or less never has any effect
Depending if you go for the strong max burst team then her second attack is really good as it sets up Flanked(but in most high pvp now everyone has a hard agent tank, so I usually go aoe first).
Her ultimate is as mentioned another execution is slightly better then x-23 as its a stealth but arguably weaker then Satanna as it does not heal her.
What I don't get with Elektra is why does she have a passive saying all moves are stealth and then all her moves also says stealth, this is clearly redundant. I first theorized it would make her immune to hobbled but I have not seen any confirmation on this.
For me its just seems kinda bad that the tooltip don't make sense.
And as I mentioned that her "unremoval" bleeding can be removed by allies is just retarded.
This 2 factors really lower her score for me.
7/10, I get she kinda needed to have assassination but man this ability is so unique now.
When playing with Elektra, her best synergy is still Ares. They perform very good together.
Its a lot of factors which makes them so good together. First of all its not the bleeding combo I mentioned but the Flanked + coordination.
This is an old classic combo I have always used in pve with Psylocke and Union Jack(in the good old days when only he had Flanked).
An enemy which is flanked attacked by anyone is pretty much dead as that invokes 1 extra attack from the attacker alone and can trigger extra attacks. SO its very easy to one shot people.
And after that they got the bleeding combo going, so a lot of save stable hemorrhage and bleeding damage.
Lastly they got the class synergy of Bruiser + Infiltrator.
100% sure that Elektra's best team mate is Ares.
Black Bolt
Black bolt is not very good...
The only thing he has going is really his ultimate as it deals epic damage after a few turns.
However, this is of course almost useless in PvP as the battle still goes to fast.
For no reason at all his third ability starts with a Cooldown, well his ultimate as well. But that is ok as why would you start with the ultimate anyway. Still his third ability should be able to use from the start but it is not...further making him weak.
Lastly, he can gain more turns as his second ability gives the Kree Speed buff(2 turn next turn) and as hes a Tactician given its a Blaster on the field he can get up to 3 turns. However,m he cant do much with those 3 turns expect his first attack, which is not a very good primary attack ability.
Black Bolt really don't do much, his only way to be effective is if the games are very long. Meaning that you have to create a team sole around that. Because going with him and some kind of mixed aggressive/longevity is not gonna work. So in the end his synergy is with either 2 tanks or a tank healer as he himself is unfortunately not very sturdy.
These teams are as most people now pretty shitty in the super high damage that is Marvel Avengers Alliance PvP. Well I will say hes a little easier as the new Atillan set makes the Agent such a good tank.
Ok, Fine is first move is decent as its another "you cant counter me even do I am a Tactician". But its a weak attack and doing it like 3 times on the enemy dont really help as you likely only have to debuff one of them,
I really don't like Black Bolt's design hes useless, which is sad because the base design of him with the ambiance particle increase is both interesting and very true to the comics. And who don't like Black Bolt, I always felt hes an interesting character in the comics, also his costume looks like Gene Simmons costume in Kiss which like on of the best bands ever.
Black bolt is not very good...
The only thing he has going is really his ultimate as it deals epic damage after a few turns.
However, this is of course almost useless in PvP as the battle still goes to fast.
For no reason at all his third ability starts with a Cooldown, well his ultimate as well. But that is ok as why would you start with the ultimate anyway. Still his third ability should be able to use from the start but it is not...further making him weak.
Lastly, he can gain more turns as his second ability gives the Kree Speed buff(2 turn next turn) and as hes a Tactician given its a Blaster on the field he can get up to 3 turns. However,m he cant do much with those 3 turns expect his first attack, which is not a very good primary attack ability.
Black Bolt really don't do much, his only way to be effective is if the games are very long. Meaning that you have to create a team sole around that. Because going with him and some kind of mixed aggressive/longevity is not gonna work. So in the end his synergy is with either 2 tanks or a tank healer as he himself is unfortunately not very sturdy.
These teams are as most people now pretty shitty in the super high damage that is Marvel Avengers Alliance PvP. Well I will say hes a little easier as the new Atillan set makes the Agent such a good tank.
Ok, Fine is first move is decent as its another "you cant counter me even do I am a Tactician". But its a weak attack and doing it like 3 times on the enemy dont really help as you likely only have to debuff one of them,
I really don't like Black Bolt's design hes useless, which is sad because the base design of him with the ambiance particle increase is both interesting and very true to the comics. And who don't like Black Bolt, I always felt hes an interesting character in the comics, also his costume looks like Gene Simmons costume in Kiss which like on of the best bands ever.
Playdom change to pvp is sooo good, Finally they fixed my issue of crashes when the game started. Now when the game launches right into the battle and not first shows the stats I haven't had a single crash and this is with 3 different computers all which before would crash sometimes especially the laptop which crashed like 80%+ is now 0% so this is really good.
2/10
Thane
so...who is this guy? Its kinda interesting that they made a completely new character be introduced in MAA, on the same time its very confusing and I don't think a lot of people would pay to get the lock boxes for him.
Anyway Thane is really like how I have imagined Death(ArchAngel) to be like, which is something I have said about earlier characters. But this design is really like how Death should have been, a great brutal strike attack.
Anyone remember my old article which covered Death? This is exactly what wanted him to, seriously wouldn't surprise me if they stole my design...I also found spelling errors when I went back to check my Deja vu article-_-
So thane is strong, he got the primary attack of dreams. A primary attack with Brutal strike is amazingly strong.
It also adds a unique debuff, Amber which will stun in the future and turn of stuff like protecting and exhaust people. SO its really strong debuff.
And then Amber stacks increase if he attacks more, so this primary is the best primary in the game. It really is.
I can say right away that Thane + Ares is good, very good. I use this team currently and I stay in Adamantium with it.
Giving Thane extra turns is also good to attack more with his primary and so on.(Agent with Sheppard + Ares people)
Thane is really the doom of Bruisers, if I face a person with bad stats he will one shoot them. The usually they don't die from the pure damage but they get enough low hp so eh can kill them with the brutal effect.
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And this is the most noteworthy strength of Thane. While other characters with execute abilities have them doing very low damage so they have to be used when the enemy is already at low or else they wont die.
Thane instead does huge damage, meaning if he attacks someone at around 60% hp they will die. If he attacks a bruiser for me he it usually takes them to around 50% HP. So even if they get some healing or some shield in between in 2 attacks he will kill them.
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Than Thane starts of with passive sheild that prevents all debuffs on him! This also really good in PvP really good his second ability is that he can cast it on an ally or himself. The sheild also heals when its destroyed so if you throw it on ur massive Agent tank(Attilan set I know u all use it).
Its actually helps a lot.
His third ability is also really good but starts CD so its a decent ability as most games he will only be able to use it once. Its a quick action.
His ultimate is like eeeh a small damage and a small heal. I just spams his first attack all the time. Which really is a further testament to that is like his ultimate is his primary....broken.
Summary of thane really, he got he best Primary in the game. With character who have coordination he is an absolute beast, best then used with Ares for both Attack/Defend. Both also of course works with Coulssons and Avenger suits.
Its also really strong with Flanked but that can be removed so(also the same reason why hes not good with Psylocke as shes basically worthless in PvP these days).
We also have a major buff for 4 characters and a nerf for one of the most classic meta characters phoenix.
Right away I can see that the buff did nothing to change the game at all excluding rouge.
I have talked to around 30 people, and then I mean talked like discussed the meta etc. All together I have talked to like 300+ this season about this game.
Regardless no one I have talked to have ever seen Spider Women, Cable nor Deadpool in the meta since they become better. While as I am sure we all know Rouge is overly used like hell.
I am surprised we don't see any Cable or Deadpool because Deadpool actually had some use in really defensive set ups(mainly making the opponent quite as it would take to long time to win)
While Cable has always been decent.
But with Spiderwomen,,,, it makes 100% sense shes still not played.
Its really simple, if they toke the worst character in the game a completely 100% useless character and improved it, but its like math. If u take 0 multiply it with 10 you still get 0.
The buff she got was not nearly enough to make her any contester in PvP. However, if likely get an alt suit eventually that one + her new abilities and passives could be a playable character.
Lets go on a little for Rouge, then I will post another article covering the Meta more and explain how the games old meta was 100% fucked by the new empowered isos.(there I cover my teams etc)
Ok so I have gotten easily 100 mails this season only about how Rouge is imba and than people asking how to beat Rouge.
To be honest I don't find rouge that hard to beat. She is clearly much, much better now. And she was always kinda good I have been one of the few saying she is playable before the buff.
Her strength is actually easily exploited. First of she pretty much needs the bruiser buff to get good damage or a good Atillan Tank can just take her attacks and take no damage, so her having tactical(extra turn e.g) dont matter.
Secondly what makes her really wicked is that if she get bruiser and Warbringer which is the common gameplay with her she does insane damage, this is true even for me with very, very high defence stats she can one shot me. However, I have alway said use removal.
If you don't have removal in your offensive PvP team you are doing it wrong. I just remove those stacks, try to not give her classes bonus(mainly enrage as that what matters) then she don't do much.
Lastly Phoenix, is much worse now as her real strength was always in how she could save the player form an unlucky start.(First of all Playdom finally fixed that turn order fiasco which I been saying for like 1.5 years) But now its a luck if she revives people she has become so bad. She can still deal some decent damage but she was the best anti luck character pretty much. Huge nerf. Tier list is coming out soon for this season and she will drop significantly.
